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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 638 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
King Lear
King Lear
King Lear is the tale of a vain, prideful, and foolish old man who
is blinded by his rage and too stubborn to mend his ways. The "self"
of Lear is overwhelmed by the authority of the "King," in the grip of
the most primitive of emotions, a human being dying inside a model.
By the time of Lear's redemption, however, from this honorable self,
what is mortal in him has been lost …showed first 75 words of 638 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 638 total…who has banished her but as a
fool who has himself been banished by such a king. Lear is fooled a
final time by Cordelia's death. As Lear falls to his death, he has a
glimmer of hope. He asks, "Do you see this? Look on her: look, her
lips,/Look there, look there" (5.3.317-318). Rather than part in misery,
Lear journeys to his final rest content for he is fooled into thinking
Cordelia still lives.
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